In a sport where gold and silver can be separated by a fraction of a second, many of the world’s top swimmers now scour data for even the smallest edge. Kate Douglass of the United States often wears ...
PARIS — Dr. Ken Ono shared his screen and, on a Zoom one week before the Olympics, began teaching me about Benford’s Law and plane partitions. Ono, a 56-year-old mathematics professor at the ...